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Researchers find effects of organic compound on drug resistance bacteria
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Recently, researchers have found that the germ and several other clinically significant bacteria, including as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae, were susceptible to the bacterial killing action of hydroquinine, an organic chemical found in the bark of some t
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Around 25 pc prisoners in Lahore, Rawalpindi jails prone to drug addiction
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Lahore and Rawalpindi jails have over 25 per cent of prisoners prone to drug addiction, according to a report by the National Commission of Human Rights (NCHR).
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Cancer drug might be helpful against malaria: Research
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A ground-breaking discovery by a multinational team led by Penn State researchers has given new hope against malaria, which kills over 500,000 people each year, disproportionately impacting children under the age of five, pregnant women, and HIV patients.
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Matthew Perry reveals he underwent surgery right before 'FRIENDS Re-Union'
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Matthew Perry revealed he had to undergo "emergency dental surgery" days before filming the "Friends" reunion last April.
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Researchers find new drug to fight UTIs
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A new drug combination has been found to be more effective, especially against persistent, drug-resistant infections, according to an international study led by a Rutgers scientist comparing new and older treatments for complicated urinary tract infections.
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New medicine discovered to be beneficial for treating complicated urinary
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A combination of the drugs cefepime and enmetazobactam was more effective in treating both complicated urinary tract infections and acute pyelonephritis (AP), a bacterial infection causing kidney inflammation than a standard treatment combining piperacillin and tazobactam.
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Drugs worth Rs 15 cr seized in Assam's Karbi Anglong, 2 held
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The drugs were recovered from a vehicle coming from Manipur. Police had information about the transit of drugs consignment. Accordingly, a Naka checking was set up at Dilai Tiniali under Bokajan sub-division.
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Uttarakhand STF raids fake medicine factory in Haridwar, two arrested
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
STF recovered a large number of spurious drug-making machines, 3 spurious medicine boxes, a total of 3160 medicines, fake wrappers, raw materials etc.
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NCB files chargesheet against Bharti Singh, her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has filed a 200-page chargesheet against comedian Bharti Singh and her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa before the court in connection with their 2020 drug case.
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Study reveals how naturally occurring compound kills major drug resistant
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Scientists analysing the effects of an organic compound on drug resistance bacteria have discovered how it can inhibit and kill a germ that causes serious illness or in some cases death.
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Early clinical trial of targeted lung cancer drug suggests it can be helpf
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Certain type of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients can be helped by repotrectinib usage, suggests early trials of the targeted drug.
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Tuberculosis cases surged for the first time in many years: WHO
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) also increased by 3 per cent between 2020 and 2021, with 450 000 new cases of rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) in 2021. This is the first time in many years an increase has been reported in the number of people falling ill with TB and drug resistant TB.
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